Environmental leaders and pioneers: agents of change?

Wurzel, Rüdiger K.W.; Liefferink, Duncan

Abstract

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article distinguishes between states acting as environmental leaders or pioneers. While leaders usually actively seek to attract followers, this is not normally the case for pioneers. Dependent on their internal and external ambitions, states may take on the position of a laggard, pioneer, pusher or symbolic leader. When doing so, states employ various combinations of types and styles of leadership or pioneership. Four types of leadership/pioneership–structural, entrepreneurial, cognitive and exemplary–and two styles of leadership/pioneership–transactional/humdrum and transformational/heroic–are used to assess leaders and pioneers. The novel analytical framework put forward is intended to generate greater conceptual clarity, which is urgently needed for more meaningful theory-guided cumulative empirical research on leaders and pioneers.

Citation

Wurzel, R. K., & Liefferink, D. (2017). Environmental leaders and pioneers: agents of change?. Journal of European Public Policy, 24(7), 951-968. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2016.1161657

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 23, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Apr 29, 2016
• Publication Date: Jul 20, 2017
• Deposit Date: May 13, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: May 13, 2016
• Journal: Journal of European public policy
• Print ISSN: 1350-1763
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 951-968
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2016.1161657
• Keywords: Change; Environment; Leaders; Pioneers; Positions; Powers; Types and styles of leadership
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/438092
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2016.1161657
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in: Journal of European public policy, on 29 Apr 2016, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13501763.2016.1161657
• Contract Date: May 13, 2016